It didn't feel like a twist reveal so much as apologia for capt jack bauer torture museum.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 25 January 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link
It didn't seem at all obvious
no goatee, no credibility
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 January 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
this new light sensitivity thing, is it laying the groundwork for mirrorbeards to invade wearing cool protective eyewear?i guess they could call them... mirrorshades
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 25 January 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
I'm still really enjoying this, and the last few episodes have made some genuinely ballsy, unpredictable story choices, by Trek standards.
... I wish the execution was better, though! Burnham is still boring and the end of _______'s arc had zero emotional affect. And yet it's still super fun, somehow.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
I loved the most recent ep. Burnham grabbing [spoiler] just as she beamed out was a great move and I can see it being useful for [spoiler as to where theyve ended up now] for tactical reasons.
Can we spoilertalk or should I wait a few days.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
dunno if it would be spoiler-y, but it seems totally possible to speak about this show purely in terms of previous series or entirely different franchises, darmok style.like "this episode was very vader and luke at endor."
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link
I didn't like this one. Michael siding with _______ seemed like a bad idea. I thought Michael was smarter than that.
Also, I just played with my phone during the action scenes. Unrealistic action scenes do nothing for me any more.
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:29 (six years ago) link
what level of unreality should they have been? i think they're missing out on leavening the darkness with some proto-kirkian karate chops and double fisting.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
like "this episode was very vader and luke at endor."
LOL that means absolutely nothing to me hahaha.
There was a lot of pew pew pew in this one, thats for sure.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
I was a bit bothered by them giving Phillipa karate moves in her fighting though. Come on, shes Asian but must we do that? No one else karate-kicked anyone.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:47 (six years ago) link
I think the phrase "join me; come to the dark side and we'll bring order to the galaxy" or something very much like it was uttered.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:53 (six years ago) link
xp honestly i didn't even notice that, but it's michelle yeoh, she's known for martial arts movies.https://youtu.be/Oh8KnmRvqd0?t=1m36s
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:57 (six years ago) link
yeah the action was actually pretty good and I was left wondering how they pulled off better action/effects than multiple movies in a late season episode
― mh, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link
but it's michelle yeoh, she's known for martial arts movies.
Well yeah, granted (my bf said the same thing).
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 00:59 (six years ago) link
TBH I would've been peeved if they never let Michelle Yeoh do Michelle Yeoh stuff!
(I do wish the fight scenes were shot like HK movies instead of the Western-style, heavily edited stuff, but that's another topic.) (Also, the actress who plays Landry looked like GOT's Sand Snakes level bad.) (And speaking of, I've seen talk that the one freed from the Agony Booth in this ep would actually have been from the Prime Universe and that the one we saw get killed by the tardigrade was originally from the MU -- not at all how it turned out, so I guess the PU Landry was a thug anyway?)
I thought most of the episode plot points were kind of rote, but when the [SPOILER] readies to fly in at the [OTHER SPOILER] and fire its photon torpedoes at the McGuffin, I had a physically tense reaction even though my brain knew that everything would turn out OK.
― Joanna NEU!some (Leee), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 01:33 (six years ago) link
lol @ all our spoilvoiding sentences.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 01:58 (six years ago) link
it was surprisingly easy for some dudes to break out of their agonizers and take over, but hey, plot. guess it helps when the emperor kills all her lieutenants just beforehand
I was left wondering how they pulled off better action/effects than multiple movies in a late season episode
i'm generally not too bothered by the quality of special effects but the show looks amazing. (there was one episode in which the director *really* loved zooming the camera in from outer space through the hull, but i forgive her/him)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 02:06 (six years ago) link
My only complaint was that one ep where they spun the camera around the talking scene over and over til I thought I'd vom. I think someone else said similar upthread.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 02:09 (six years ago) link
yeah that was riker directing!
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 02:11 (six years ago) link
I noticed Frakes also directed an episode of The Orville recently.
Think Enterprise is the only post TNG one he hasn't had any involvement with.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 08:06 (six years ago) link
wise
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 08:43 (six years ago) link
except when he turned up in the last scene in the last episode!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkecbH6an0w
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
he was in that ENTire episode
― scoff walker (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
it's been a long rooooooad getting from beard to beard
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
Was actively guffawing at Lorca's brilliant battle plan of engaging forces in a hallway/shooting gallery when you have less than thirty people at your disposal
― Brakhage, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
half the point of the mirror universe seems to be demonstrating how you're the biggest hardman, at all times
― mh, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
ROLLING HARDMAN THREAD 2255
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 19:37 (six years ago) link
I didn’t like how dude went from heelturn reveal to complete genocidal maniac in like 15 minutes across two episodes. That seemed a bit much.
Poor Rehka Sharma.
― Crazy Display Name Haver (kingfish), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
Also disappointed a certain ship never made an appearance after being alluded to in multiple episodes
― Crazy Display Name Haver (kingfish), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
we still have 2(?) episodes left. i'm hoping we still get to see that ship
― scoff walker (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
I was thinking throughout this week's episode that they'd end up setting up Georgiou in a position where Burnham ends up handing her too much power under desperation
but no, they went... the other direction
― mh, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:47 (six years ago) link
this episode hurt me in my heart because all I could think was "why couldnt Bablyon 5 have looked this good, this is exactly what Babylon 5 could have been like with a budget, arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhh"
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 5 February 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
(as in, this ep reminded me of the earth vs Minbari standoffs and such)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 5 February 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
so i guess they cut the kelpian dinner scene out of the previous episode. thank you censors.
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 06:09 (six years ago) link
it was in the version I watchedafter that scene where Burnham had to pick a kelpian, the emperor pushes her to try one dish at their dinner and says it’s kelpian brain sashimi
― mh, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 13:55 (six years ago) link
It was several eps previous.
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
why would the censors cut that scene???
― Mordy, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
yikes, I missed that.
given the show, i thought they'd do some sort of foie gras thing or maybe the monkey heads in temple of doom.
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
It wasnt gorey or anything, just commented on while they sat at dinner iirc?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:53 (six years ago) link
not gory in visuals, but in essence...
― mh, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:56 (six years ago) link
looked like they were eating lotus root.
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:37 (six years ago) link
I was confused by the ending and thought they'd brought back the *original* Girorgiou.
Otherwise, solid episode! Science and problem solving and corridor walking - it felt like the most old school Trek episode so far.
And "my lorca is dead" seemed like a clear cue that he's alive, somewhere.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:49 (six years ago) link
one’s missing, one is a spore lad now
― mh, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link
Namedropping Archer so conspicuously seems like they're itching to bring out Scott Bakula in old-man makeup to give some rousing braveheart speech while porthos softly weeps.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link
like old man Sarek in TNG
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 08:55 (six years ago) link
that was the worst episode
― scoff walker (diamonddave85), Monday, 12 February 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
i liked the groovy vintage theme during the credits tho
Well that was one of the weirdest first seasons of a show I’ve ever seen. It started to grow on me after a while even with it making zero sense most of the time.
That said, rolled my eyes hard at the last shot in the finale.
― The Spilling of a Sacred Beer (latebloomer), Monday, 12 February 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
it's settled: clint howard is the throughline that ties all the series together
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 12 February 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
Just realized that it was Evil Lorca who dropped Elon Musk’s name as important space pioneer, suggesting Musk’s prominence in the evil fashy MU
https://www.geekwire.com/2017/star-trek-discovery-elon-musk/
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 12 February 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link